| ▲ | LorenDB 7 hours ago |
| Why do all the Discord alternative apps try to 1:1 clone Discord's UI? Half of my dislike of Discord stems from its UI. |
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| ▲ | theturtletalks 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Have you tried Chatto[0]? Seems to be an open-source Slack and Discord alternative with a nice UI. 0. https://github.com/chattocorp/chatto |
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| ▲ | hmokiguess 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Damn this is gorgeous. That said, how can one try something if no one is there? I can sway my team to move it, but not my audience. Discord still owns the market as a medium to reach an audience. | |
| ▲ | axus 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | The screenshot looks identical to Discord? | | |
| ▲ | therealpygon 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | No! You see, it has text and a version at the top. That makes it new, fresh, and completely different. Some would even say superior. |
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| ▲ | arikrahman 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Looks like a cool project, thanks for the reference. Have been relying on Dorion up to this point. |
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| ▲ | tekchip 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| So much this. Discord UI was for simple voice and text chat. Over time it's had so many other things shoe horned in its now a royal kludge. |
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| ▲ | nelsonfigueroa 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I guess because there's people like me that like the UI (aside from all the Nitro bloat at least) |
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| ▲ | Sohcahtoa82 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I'm always surprised to hear people hate Discord's UI. I think it's fine. The only thing I was probably change is adding the ability to bookmark specific channels so I can switch to them in a single click no matter what channel I'm currently looking at. |
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| ▲ | Gigachad 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | It's fine as a kind of replacement for forums, but I don't like it at all for chat and community. I find Discord admins always tend to create 5 trillion channels which each get about one message per week. And then whine when you haven't sorted your messages in to the most relevant channels. The vast majority of chats would be be better off in a standard group chat UI with no channels. | |
| ▲ | virgil_disgr4ce 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Yeah; I get the impression that people saying this really mean "I hate the stupid upsells." Which is fine, I do too. But I guess on HN there's more clout to claiming it's the UI that's the problem? | | |
| ▲ | saintfire 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Nah, everyone I know isn't a fan of discord's UI. I stand to gain nothing and I don't even think it's popular sentiment. For a new user it's completely alien. Trying to get a coworker to try discord for the first time is a nightmare. It tries to solve so much in such a condensed bar on the side. Why are DM listed "as" a server. I hate the notification system for transient server joins. I have no opinion of the channel system. Why can't you read discord threads of a public discord without joining the server and accepting the posting rules? They're trying to emulate forums but it's a huge PITA to just read (in a RO state, even). Idk lots of complaints, network effect is a bitch. | | |
| ▲ | hmokiguess 6 hours ago | parent [-] | | Totally, I suspect a lot of people who preach discord here use it for fun and hobby, like some book club or small community. Try using it at scale, for channeling communities, engaging with users, bots, marketing, and for work with streaming, video, rooms, voice rooms, moderation, etc. There is an entire universe, even large businesses, built just around navigating Discord for good and for worse. Turn it into a protocol. |
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| ▲ | LorenDB 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Well, I do hate the stupid upsells, but the entire Discord UI just feels... off. I can't really place a finger on it, but I just don't like it. (Maybe there is a bit of a UX nag causing these feelings as well? I'm not sure.) | |
| ▲ | jamesfinlayson 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | I log into Discord maybe once a fortnight to check what's going, and every time I land in a channel, it shows me the newest handful of messages, and I need to scroll back endlessly to get back to where I actually left off. |
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| ▲ | charcircuit 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Because it reduces the switching cost because users don't have to learn a new interface. Discord has shown that its UI is at least capable of being used by hundreds of millions of users so it is not a bad starting point. |
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| ▲ | hmokiguess 6 hours ago | parent [-] | | That's exactly it. A lot of users are likely emotionally attached and trapped to their Nitro garbage and feel like they "invested" far into the cult by now. Giving them a way out is important if you want to acquire that market. | | |
| ▲ | virgil_disgr4ce 6 hours ago | parent [-] | | Man, the Nitro stuff is garbage, but it's bizarre that you're equating the ENTIRE UI to that. It's really not that obtrusive. I don't like it either but it's like 0.5% of the UI | | |
| ▲ | hmokiguess 6 hours ago | parent [-] | | Fair point, opinions are not truth. That said there are lots of mods out there for it with substantial (many millions) of users where their entire reason for existing is taking control of the UI. What happens to building protocols? I am totally against being a slave to PaaS. |
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